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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1919
Page
2
The theater listing promotes Valesia Suratt in The Sont of Broad war with 150 gowns and dramatic outfits. Also shows Madaline Travers in When Fate Decides and William Russell in Some Liar, plus Nazimova in Out of the Fog.
Vernon car dealers report steady sales with firms like Works Auto & Supply selling seven passenger Paige to John Meine Wasser and Maxwell vehicles to buyers including W. J. Smith son Eugene Reltz Wes Self and others. Robinson Motor shows Republic track, Hiddleston Napier Bros. Ford & Motor Co. sell Ford tearings to multiple customers. Phillips buys a Ford coupe. Some Ford shipments include new starters and improvements.
Labor Day gathering at Condon Springs on Monday September 1 features a ball in the evening with music by the Wichita colored band. Plenty of pure spring water and shade available. all invited. G2-Stp Adv. GAMES CONDON Myer.
Graham and family from Boise City Cimarron county Okla visit friends here this week. They formerly lived on the DL Green place north of the river in this county. Mr Graham bought a Cimarron county farm last year and says he nearly paid for it from his first crop. Regvee Rawls left Sunday for Central Texas to visit relatives before returning to St. Louis where he works with Texas Cement Sbister Company. He has been visiting his aunt Mrs Virgie Hewitt.
Harvey Awalt prepares a Duroc pig for Vernon County Fair noting a 56 pound gain in a month from April 1 to May 1. Carrell Nix and Robert Nix also pursue prizes with their Durocs. Carroll’s Sow weighed 440 pounds by September 6 after 217 days, earning premiums and sale income.
Drillers on the Empire O Company well at the Herring and Johnson ranch, about fifteen miles west of Crowell, report a 40,000 pound casing string dropped last week. The hole reaches 2,810 feet in black lime with Ranger-like formations just above the oil sands, and they expect Ranger oil strata within 400 feet if the hole is saved. The project has run over a year and cost about 150,000 dollars due to hard formations and long supply hauls from the railroad. Swearengen on the Quanib Acme and Pacific Railway serves as the unloading point for machinery and fuel oil.
Wanted at once high school girls and boys with piano training grade 3 or better. Special inducement to learn trombone cello bass clarinet, etc with no obligation to join the high school orchestra. Call Paul Goetze Music School 400 South Cumberland As2te Fri. Mr and Mrs Duke Tennyson of Wichita Falls visited Vernon over the weekend. Subscribe for the Record $2.00.
John Denney, 56, died of heart failure Sunday night at a local hotel while staying near Vernon after two weeks working on Charlie Woods farm east of town. He had two sons and a daughter in Michigan, but no relatives have replied to telegrams. body held at T J Youngblood Undertaking. If no burial requests arrive, the county will bury him locally at its expense.
Mrs. Geo Hix reports a telegram from her husband, stationed in the paymaster's office of the U S Navy in New York City, stating he expects to leave today or tomorrow for Dallas to receive his discharge. He left Vernon about twenty eight months ago.
M Crownover and family of Odell visited Vernon for a Monday shopping trip, spending time exploring local merchants and areas of interest.
Mr. and Mrs. S. Duckworth return today to their Denison home after spending several days visiting at the home of their daughter Mrs. Rk. Parr.
W. E. Barrow of Houston has accepted a position with the Vernon Abstract Company. Barrow brings considerable experience in the abstracting business to his new role.
Dr 7 arrives Sunday from Port Worth asserting Wilharger County has the best roads between Vernon and Fort Worth.
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